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Everything You Need For Better Leaders & Smarter Strategies.

Free guides, a research-backed self-assessment, a library of complimentary articles, and a monthly newsletter — built on peer-reviewed behavioral science. Because the power of psychology should be accessible to everyone.

Flagship Tools

Start Here.

Two complimentary, research-grounded resources designed to meet you where you are — one for self-discovery, one for applied practice.

The Influence Assessment — cover, sample question, results profile
01 · Assessment

Discover Your Influence Style.

Most people don't fail at influence because they lack intelligence. They fail because their default approach triggers defensiveness — especially when stakes are high, time is short, or emotions run hot.

In about 4 minutes, surface your default influence style, your blind spot, the gap between who you believe you are and what you do under pressure, and one concrete move to try this week.

14 Questions ~4 Minutes Instant Results

The Behavioral Edge — Influence 51 leader guide
02 · Leader Guide

The Behavioral Edge.

A compact executive brief on how psychology changes the game for leaders, strategists, and change agents.

Inside: the five most important things to know if you want to change how people think, behave, and decide — and how to put them to work tomorrow.

  • 01The Brain Isn't a Computer
  • 02Our Social Nature Matters
  • 03Political Sensibilities Matter
  • 04Our Approach Matters
  • 05Structure & Presentation Matter

12 Pages Executive Brief Free Download

Monthly Newsletter

The Influence 51
Newsletter.

Monthly insights into what moves people. Learn the psychology and behavioral science behind how people think, decide, and act — and practical ways to apply it the next day.

July 2026 Edition

Moral Translation.

Picture a CEO — let's call her Maya — walking into her third board meeting on the same "group belongingness" initiative she's been pitching for more than a year. She has the ROI models, the peer-benchmark data, the cost-of-inaction analysis. And she opens with, "It's only fair…"

Just like that, she loses part of the room. Not because the board is hostile, and not because the numbers are wrong, but because Maya is arguing in a moral dialect much of the room doesn't natively speak. The research calls the failure mode the "moral empathy gap." The fix is a technique called moral reframing — and, done well, it can change everything.

This month's newsletter covers:

  • The Feinberg & Willer (2015) "From Gulf to Bridge" program — six studies across same-sex marriage, healthcare, military spending, and language policy that show why moral vocabulary can matter more than moral substance.
  • Why participants asked to persuade the other side almost always fail — they write arguments in their own moral language, not the audience's — and how to diagnose which foundations you're leaning on before your next high-stakes pitch.
  • The double edge Kodapanakkal et al. (2022) uncovered — moral framing persuades and entrenches — and three imperatives for using moral translation without hardening the ground under a future compromise.

Subscribe to read the rest — and receive next month's issue in your inbox.

Complimentary Articles

12 Essays On What Moves People.

Short, research-grounded reads on the mechanisms that drive persuasion, judgment, and behavior change.

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